MANCHESTER AND THE SORRY STATE OF BRITISH JOURNALISM

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Arena, ariana grande, attack, boycott, clickbait, clicks, daesh, daily mail, Dan Hett, fake news, fake report, hacking, hillsborough, journalism, Katie Hopkins, leaks, Leveson, Liverpool, manchester, Martyn Hett, mass shooting, mental health, Piers Morgan, propaganda, PTSD, revenue, social media, sun, tabloid, terrorism, UK media, US, voyeurism, westminster.

by Zoe Harding

CW: article contains descriptions of the Manchester terrorist attack, racist discourse, links to images of war crimes.

The official threat level after the terror attack in Manchester is back down from Critical to Serious, and the country has started to move on. The news cycle seems to have been slightly shorter, as well; at time of writing the front page of the BBC News website is largely concerned with technical problems at British Airways and I-kid-you-not a cheese rolling competition.

I’d love to say that this particular terrorist incident didn’t incite the usual wave of hate and disgustingly inappropriate coverage that tends to follow such events, including random hate crimes, thundering headlines and political manoeuvring. I’d love to.

But The Daily Mail exists. And The Sun. And the political climate in the UK has become sufficiently toxic that even without those two, the response was nonetheless as unpleasant as any I’ve seen.Continue Reading

CROMER, 2013

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, Carmina Masoliver, coast, creative writing, Cromer, daydream, English, happy, heart, hope, joy, love, melancholy, norfolk, norwich, pleasure, poem, poet, poetry, positive, relationship, SEA, seaside, sestina, sky, summer, sun, water, waves, weather, women poets, women writers, world, writer, writing.

by Carmina Masoliver

The rush of the lapping waves of the sea,
the sound of shells, smell of salt, is where,
the humdrum left behind, I can just be.
The horizon before me, I can stare,
watch where the sea meets sky and then it leaves –
nowhere I’d rather be than standing there.Continue Reading

DEEP DISCOMFORT

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, autumn, Bastarde Senza Gloria, contemporary, creative writing, crocks, discomfort, impact, italian, italian women in translation, pain, poem, poetry, pressure, summer, sun, tan, translation, Valentina Diana, women, women writers, words, writing.

by Alex Valente

Original Italian by Valentina Diana (1968-), from Bastarde Senza Gloria

Poems are not mats
on which to lie and catch some sun
and say It makes me think, how lovely!
that it really is like this.

sun

CROMER, 2013

DEEP DISCOMFORT

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